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crobinson2013

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The area within medical anthropology that seeks to make its knowledge useful to medical practitioners working in health-care delivery is __________.
 
  A) applied medical anthropology
  B) critical medical anthropology
  C) ethnomedicine
  D) symbolic/interpretivist anthropology

Question 2

An example of the interpretivist approach in medical anthropology is __________.
 
  A) assessment of the impact of disease during colonial contact
  B) studying how hookworm is related to wet rice cultivation in Asia
  C) showing how a song sung by a shaman might help a woman through a difficult birth
  D) revealing the role poverty plays in disease



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

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Answer: C





 

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